How to see salon profit from your Fresha export
Sales summaries are useful. Profit after wages needs them next to paid hours.
Fresha is built for bookings, checkout and salon sales reports. Those views show what the team sold. They do not usually hand you profit after wages by day and stylist, or RPLH against your wage floor. Tangled Analytics does not claim a native Fresha parser today. Export a sales summary, reshape it into the daily summary CSV format, upload, and read profit. Tangled is an add-on, not a Fresha replacement.
What Fresha reports show (and what they do not)
Fresha is built for bookings and sales. Its reports are good at showing tickets, staff sales and busy days. They usually do not subtract wages and payroll tax from those sales, and they do not show revenue per labor hour or profit after wages by day and by stylist.
Fresha Reports can export a sales summary CSV. That file is a starting point for a daily summary, not a finished profit-after-wages view.
That gap is normal. Booking software is not a profit dashboard. The same pattern shows up in GlossGenius, Vagaro, Square, Phorest, etc.: strong sales views, thin profit views.
Sales is not profit after wages
| Week view (example) | Sales in booking report | Payroll + tax | Profit after wages |
| Monday | $1,100 | $1,250 | -$150 |
| Thursday | $2,800 | $1,400 | +$1,400 |
| Saturday | $5,400 | $1,900 | +$3,500 |
Made-up salon. The booking report can look fine on Monday while that day loses money after wages.
Owners who only watch ticket totals miss quiet paid hours. Pair sales with revenue per labor hour, payroll percentage and profit margin.
Daily summary path from Fresha
Tangled reads a daily summary CSV for Fresha — not a claimed native parser. Honest steps:
- Export a sales report from Fresha for whole days (date range that matches the week you care about).
- In a spreadsheet, total sales per day — and per stylist when the export allows — into the exact headers in the FAQ: daily summary format.
- Upload that CSV to Tangled Analytics, or start with the free profit snapshot (no account, no card).
- Read profit by day and by stylist, plus RPLH and labor share, once paid hours and wages are in the tool.
Tangled does not replace Fresha. Keep Fresha for appointments and checkout. Use Tangled when you want the money picture those reports skip. Native export how-tos for GlossGenius, Square, Phorest and the Vagaro daily-summary path live on the guides hub.
What you can do once you see the picture
- Cut or shorten days that stay under the wage floor (closing slow days).
- Match paid hours to booked hours (schedule stylists to demand).
- Raise prices where the book is full (how to raise salon prices).
- Follow the profit-first sequence in how to maximize salon profits.
Quick answers
Does Fresha show salon profit after wages?
Fresha shows sales and related reports. It does not usually show profit after wages by day and stylist. Combine a daily summary of sales with paid hours and wage cost for that.
How do I see profit from a Fresha export?
In Fresha, open Reports, choose a sales summary, then Options > CSV. Total the export per day into Tangled’s daily summary format and upload. Use the free profit snapshot at tangleddata.com or the FAQ format page.
Is Tangled a Fresha alternative?
No. Keep Fresha for bookings and checkout. Tangled sits on top of a daily summary CSV so you can see profit, RPLH and labor share.
What if I use GlossGenius, Vagaro, Square or Phorest instead?
Same idea: export sales, then see profit. Some systems upload as-is; others use the daily summary path. Guides are on the Tangled export guides hub.